and johnny would say before and after that was steve landsburg, you can see him on sunset boulevard here in hollywood. and pretty soon you realize that was an instant connection. comedy store, you knew they had the amateur night and the tonight show. 1975 i went out there, three years later i was a guest on the tonight show. it was so much easier for me. and it was great for the tonight show because they needed people in those days the show was 90 minutes. your show is an hour, just seemed like 90 minutes. it's the same thing. >> you get on the johnny carson show. it's your turn to go on the show, and i think you knocked them out. >> i did pretty well. but first timers tend to do pretty well. in those days they had a wonderful screening system. they would have coordinators come to see you and work out a set and they would say yeah, we think we like you. we'll be back in six weeks. and they didn't -- the last thing they wanted to do is have a guy come on and not do well. because this was the tonight show. this was the cadillac. they wanted to look -- you know, there was never a soft momen

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and johnny would say before and after that was steve landsburg, you can see him on sunset boulevard here in hollywood. and pretty soon you realize that was an instant connection. comedy store, you knew they had the amateur night and the tonight show. 1975 i went out there, three years later i was a guest on the tonight show. it was so much easier for me. and it was great for the tonight show because they needed people in those days the show was 90 minutes. your show is an hour, just seemed like 90 minutes.